NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- Shackled, bound and fettered, heads bowed, they stumbled out of the American military aircraft.

Our brothers, our sisters, our children, thrown back, in an undignified manner, by a President and a people who considered them unworthy of their land.

The majority from Gujarat, the prime minister's home state, the others from various parts of India.

Later, in weary, hushed tones, they spoke about forty-kilometre treks through jungles, scaling impossible hills, and crossing treacherous rivers. Of danger, risk and peril and then, alas, their capture.

They spoke of days in near inhuman captivity in a land where a statue known as Liberty spoke to those who entered her shores, saying, 'Give me your tired, your poor, Your ...